After a quiet period, interest in bookplates in Australia began to increase in the early 1970s, Entrepreneurial art and book collectors such as Edwin Jewell and others commissioned multiple Bookplate designs from a range of well known fine artists. At a 1997 meeting in Melbourne of the Ephemera Society of Australia Edwin Jewell and others announced the formation of the Australian Bookplate Society. The society was instrumental in promoting the art of the bookplate through establishment of the Australian Bookplate Design competition. Image of a tree of signatures with bookplate name EX LIBRIS TERESA FERRO lower left and right of trunk.Signed in image lower right corner. Pencilled on verso B3046 and below this Reg No: 78 Teresa Ferro and signature.australian bookplate design awards 2020, kieth wingrove memorial trust, australlian bookplate society, bookplates

After a quiet period, interest in bookplates in Australia began to increase in the early 1970s, Entrepreneurial art and book collectors such as Edwin Jewell and others commissioned multiple Bookplate designs from a range of well known fine artists. At a 1997 meeting in Melbourne of the Ephemera Society of Australia Edwin Jewell and others announced the formation of the Australian Bookplate Society. The society was instrumental in promoting the art of the bookplate through establishment of the Australian Bookplate Design competition. Inscribe in pencil lower right beneath image, Laura Castell 2020bookplate, 2020 australian bookplate design awards, kieth wingrove memorial trust, australian bookplate society